@olystuart

"Allowing such acts to go without an effective answer would amount to normalizing the replacement of law by might while eroding the very foundations of the collective security system. Today it is not only Venezuela's sovereignty that is at stake. The credibility of international law, the authority of this organization, and the validity of the principle that no State can set itself up as the judge, party, and executor of the world order are also at stake." -Venezuelan UN Ambassador at the UN Security Council today I'm seeing Americans accept or even celebrate this move away from international diplomacy to outright global military conflict. Some people think this is the only way the world can be, the only way humanity can be. Because of our human nature, which they assume is limited to violence and self interest. This is a very limited, incomplete view of human nature. Humanity has evolved to this point, in part, by our ability to communicate and work together in community. To dismiss this aspect of humanity is to cut us off from reaching our full potential. You may feel smug or confident in your assertion that might makes right, but you have given up on humanity's future in that case, which to me is sad and pathetic. Yes we live in a violent, competitive reality. But that is not the only way, and we should strive to use all of our abilities to rise above this mess and make something better. If you listen to people speak at the UN, many of them are working on this and have been for decades. If you think the US way of military bullying is the only way, you haven't been paying attention to the people of the world. We should all strive for a world where diplomacy is primary and international law is meaningful. Dunking on their struggles may be easy, but it's useless.

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